AANA (NON) membership anyone?

[ruler of kolob]

This is for CRNAs only....Are any of you NOT members of the AANA? if not, why not? Please do not go on and on about how it is my prefessional organization protecting my scope of practice etc etc etc. I am asking those who are NOT members why they chose to opt out. Are any of you angry enough about the AANAs inaction and abandonment of its members RE the MBCRNAs program for recertification? Maybe it's refusal to admit overproduction is a problem and it's unwillingness to address the problem? Cost of membership vs benefits received?

I know I am NOT the only non AANA member. According to the annual survey, about 5% of us are not members.

Thanks

[jwk]

I don't need to sit and prove that the majority of ACT practices do not meet TEFRA requirements it is a known fact, if you feel it is not you can refute with skills taught in AA school on utilizing research/EBM.

I see - because you say it, it must be so.

If it were true, why can you not provide a single example? Surely there is a well-publicized case out there - if anesthesia billing fraud is as rampant as you imply, it should be easy for you to cite a case to enlighten everyone else.

Either you won't - or more likely, you can't - either way you're blowing smoke.

[wtbcrna, MSN, DNP, CRNA]

I see - because you say it, it must be so.

If it were true, why can you not provide a single example? Surely there is a well-publicized case out there - if anesthesia billing fraud is as rampant as you imply, it should be easy for you to cite a case to enlighten everyone else.

Either you won't - or more likely, you can't - either way you're blowing smoke.

It goes both ways you cannot prove me wrong, and I am in Hawaii On vacation so I'm not looking up anything right now...lol

[ruler of kolob]

I don't mean to contribute to the thread jacking , but, diploma programs were graduating students into the 90s. I know of at least two in this state that were giving diplomas as late as 1993.